Helen Hunt Quotes
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Isn't it said that eating pink noodles turns you into a horny pervert?!
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A boat can't have two captains.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
